Over a 37 day period the Mountain Lion roamed And for the short while he was here in North Texas he continued to stay on the move and he covered a lot of ground. Estimated to be approximately six years of age by TPWD, the big cat had likely been wandering the state for some time before he found his way into the Metroplex. The Mountain Lion was determined to be a adult male around 160 pounds and over six feet in length. The shooter reported the Mountain Lion to the Hunt County Game Warden who verified that the hunter was properly licensed, and that it was legal for him to have killed the cat.ĪRTICLE: Man kills ‘massive’ mountain lion while deer hunting near Celeste The big cat had wandered in front of the hunter’s position and was shot. REPORT: Texas Parks And Wildlife Confirms Another Mountain Lion Sighting In North Texasįinally, as you all know, the Mountain Lion was killed on Decemby a deer hunter near Celeste, Texas. Reportedly, there was some evidence of a recent White-tailed Deer kill in close proximity. This time the cat was recorded by a trail camera on private property. Weston, Texas recorded on November 12, 2020ĪRTICLE: Rowlett Mountain Lion Confirmed!Ī few days later, the Mountain Lion was photographed in Princeton, Texas (December 7, 2020). Unconfirmed trail camera photograph reportedly from This was the first confirmed sighting, and the one most of you are probably familiar with. The next time the lion was seen was in Rowlett, Texas on the night of November 22, 2020. Another unconfirmed sighting was reported near Weston, Texas on November 12, 2020. The earliest possible (but still unconfirmed) sighting puts the big cat in Celeste, Texas in on November 7, 2020. It’s not clear just how our North Texas Mountain Lion found his way into the Metroplex. Most, if not all, young cats that have made the attempt end up as either roadkill or harvested by a hunter.ĪRTICLE: Are there Mountain Lions in the Dallas/Fort Worth Area? THE North Texas Mountain Lion The journey through Texas is fraught with perils for a transient Mountain Lion seeking to establish a territory in a new part of the state. To date, this exercise appears to be fruitless. Occasionally, when a young male Mountain Lion comes into conflict with an older male, the juvenile will range into other parts of the state in search of territory of its own. Mountain Lions in Texas are resident only in far West Texas and parts of South Texas-The Trans-Pecos and along the Rio Grande in some places. Clarity is critical with this, because it is the only way a reasoned position about Mountain Lions in North Texas can be developed.įrom Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. In spite of what you are likely to hear casually, there is absolutely no evidence that there is a resident population of Mountain Lions living in or around Dallas/ Fort Worth. A Mountain Lion in North Texas?Ī Mountain Lion in North Texas is an extremely rare event. Finally, I’m going to address the way we responded to the news of the big cat’s death. I’m going to discuss the politics surrounding Mountain Lions living in this part of the state. I’m also going to offer some commentary on how the cat might have found his way into North Texas and why he only survived such a short time. Some of the sightings I will report have been confirmed, and some of them have not. In this article I’m going to tell the intrepid cat’s story in a little more detail, tracing his route through the Metroplex and surrounding area in as much detail as I can. Hunt County Game Warden inspecting the killed Mountain Lion in a Wolfe City car wash Unfortunately, the North Texas Mountain Lion is now dead.
Until proven otherwise, that will be our assumption. In all likelihood, all three of these cases involved the same animal. Tragically, just six days later a Mountain Lion was shot and killed near the small town of Celeste, Texas, just a little further to the northeast of Princeton. The recorded photographs allowed the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to confirm this observations as well. Once again the Mountain Lion was imaged by a trail camera. This time in Princeton, Texas, twenty miles to the north of the Rowlett sighting.
Video footage of the rare and unusual sighting quickly became big news and garnered attention all across the country.Ī few weeks later the big cat was spotted again.
Most people in Dallas/Fort Worth first became aware of the lion in late November after the big cat was recorded by a trail camera as it passed through Rowlett, Texas-a suburb of Dallas.
Video of a Mountain Lion in Rowlett, Texas recorded on November 22, 2020
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